So This Is Love
(Savage)

I’m trying here
I’m trying to stay
Well I guess it’s just another of your days
All I’m hearing is find another way
Tell me, is it me you want

Always thought I was strong enough, I’d hold
All this time I thought we had a little more
Been a year or three or more
I’m not mine, you’re not yours

So this is love
It’s everything I wanted it to be

Tell me I’m not all you’ve got

So this is love
It’s everything I wanted it to be

Hold On
(Savage)

Inside my head sounds like a bird cage
And the birds are waging war with cohesive thought
And it’s loud in there
Then you call me up and tell me doctors say
You’ve got poison in your blood and the poison’s here to stay
There’s nothing that can be done
Nothing
Well here we are and this is it
I’m here, I’m here for you

Hold on
I’m holding on for you

Look I know we’ve had our differences
I know there’s been trials
I know the sun sets because
I was there when it rose
The slammed doors, the Christmas dinners
I’m still pining for something different
I’m pinning for a second chance
Some better news, good news

I’m here, I’m here for you
I’m here, I’m here for you
Hold on
Hold on for me

If I could take you back to a simpler time, you know I would
But I’m here, you’re still here
Hold on for me
If I could carry all this weight for you, you know I would
But you’re still here and I’m here
Hold on for me

Hold on
I’m holding on for you

Push
(Savage)

My mama told me crying doesn’t suit my face
What about this neediness mama?

I’ll never admit that I ever could have let you down
I’m sure I’m perfect for you baby

I’m not feeling too hot today
Push

In spite of all this fun
It’s really getting me down

I’ll never admit that I ever could have let you down

I’m not feeling too hot today
Push

Every Day Is The Same
(Savage)

Every day is the same
Every day is the same

I know I told you I love you
I know I told you I needed you
Anyways, I’m not saying I’m lying
Anyways, everything I said was the truth

Every day is the same

And that song gets in your head
Raging round, racing round
You tell me this means we’re coming to an end
It’s just a song, it doesn’t mean anything

Every day is the same

Seems like we’ve been in this place before
Surely you don’t remember me anymore
This flame is burning
Come closer and hold it in your hand

Every day is the same

$600 Short On The Rent
(Savage)

I’m a think tank
Thinking out loud
Thinking for myself
Making everybody proud
I’m an old reliable and mostly I’m sensible too

I’m trying I’m trying I’m trying to relinquish control
I’m holding on tight to the same clichés
Baby I love you

I’m $600 short on the rent
I’m passive with the system
And I fight with my friends

I’m holding onto memories
I’m acting like all this shit doesn’t affect me

It’s someone else’s problem
It can’t be mine
I spent my life pretending that I’m not a crier

Oooh I’ve let the rot set in

I’m a speed freak
Read into that any way you want
I’ll be anything you want
I’m a motorbike
I’m a motorbike baby

It’s a fragile situation
It’s sitting in the sun on a winter’s day

I’m sorry I can’t be more cohesive
Oh this fragile situation snuck up on me

Oooh I’ve let the rot set in

Keep Working At Your Job
(Savage)

There’s more important things in life
Than working at your job
Working at your body
I want to touch your body

I think you’re just like me
Broken like the rest of us
Keep it all inside
Keep working at your job

I’ll be the first to admit it
You kinda let me down
You’re kinda hard to talk to
Yeah I get it
Control
Control what you can control
Keep your head down
Keep working at your job

I’m doing my best to be unlovable
And all you want is someone to love you back

Keep working at your job

I don’t think I can help ya
I don’t think I can help ya
I’m not your saviour
I’m not your guiding light

I don’t think I can help ya
I don’t think I can help ya
Just keep your head down
Keep working at your job

I Want To Be Everyone
(Savage/Finch)

I want to be everyone
I want to be yours
I want to set this night on fire
I want to be yours

Don’t you depend on me
I’ll make you feel bad
Don’t you depend on me

I got a fantasy that I can be everything you need
I want to be everyone

Put your hand into my hand
Put your heart into my heart

Don’t you depend on me
I’ll make you feel bad
Don’t you depend on me

I got a fantasy that I can be everything you need
I want to be everyone

Push your hand into my hand
Push your heart into my heart

Seahorse (I’ll Be Your Rainy Day)
(Savage)

All my friends have gone to bed
It’s just you and I left
Last time still running through my head
And it’s you and I again
I know you’re waiting for someone
But you’re here in my bed
Sing to me your love songs
Sing them to me again

If you tell me that you want me
I’ll be your rainy day

I’m fucked up
I’m pretty sure it’s not just the ketamine
Two years confused
No one’s made it out the same

When you hold me like you mean it
Scarlette I want to promise you everything
Just tell me that you want me
I’ll be your rainy day

Shake From The Heart
(Savage)

I’m looking for an answer
You say the meds, the meds are helping
If I could bring you back to this moment
And we could shake
Shake from the heart

I get it, I get it, you’re sad
And yeah, I know you’re breaking up
I can’t admit I’m helpless
I’m watching, I’m watching you fall apart

I feel, I hear it
I hear, I feel it too

I’m listening, I’m trying
You say the talking, the talking it helps
If I could bring you back to this moment
And we can shake
Shake from the heart

It’s late, it’s late, it’s getting dark
I know the nights are harder than the days
Of course, I’ll be here for you, if that’s what you need
These ups and downs make it hard to pretend but
I’m feeling fearless

I feel, I hear it
I hear, I feel it too

Shake from the heart

Human, I am
(Cash Savage)

It’s ok you’re not one of them
It’s ok you’re not one of them
Argue with a fever
Ruiner of worlds
Father of a son
Son of a man
I know what I am I’m not yours
I know what I am I’m not yours
Not a leader
Not a follower
Not brave
Not yours

I am human

It’s ok you’re not one of them
It’s ok you’re not one of them
Yeah you’re on our side
Oh you’re offended?
It’s ok you’re not one of them

Sometimes it’s hard to be when everyone’s talking at you about you
Like the business is theirs

I am human
Not your human

Frustrated servants
Furious bullies

Better Than That
(Cash Savage)

Is there another way ’round?
I’m done trying to word this so you don’t feel bad
What I’m telling you is bigger than that
But your questions hurt

Secretly I’d hoped you were better than that

Every day comes another intrusion
You can second guess me all you like
But I know what I’m doing
Well we’re all trying to live here, aren’t you?
But your questions hurt

Secretly I’d hoped you were better than that

I’m not thinking of myself
I’m not thinking of myself when I

Field your questions, if you’re really gonna ask them
There’s a lot of people out there thinking
I’m up for discussion
I’m not thinking of myself when I tell you I’m glad to do it
But your questions hurt

Secretly I’d hoped you were better than that

Pack Animals
(Cash Savage & Nick Finch)

I keep thinking ahead
To when I don’t have to lose my head
But this is now and I’ve just sung to the crowd
Just just just look at me go
Here comes the man in the room
Looks like he wants my attention
Look at him leaning in now he wants my attention
Says everybody around him is being too sensitive
I’m not being too sensitive

I keep thinking ahead
To when I don’t have to lose my head
All the agents in the agency
Dot dot dot dot dot dot exploiting me
He smiles and smiles and he takes and takes
Spends all day daydreaming of handshakes
He says you know what the bees make, the bees make money
He says you’re just like the bees, an instrument for money
Just an instrument for money

I keep thinking ahead
To when I don’t have to lose my head
But all my thoughts are just confusing me
‘Cause I keep looking for change
Maybe I’m thinking too much
He says I’m being too sensitive
Well a change is gonna come but maybe it’s come too late
I heard last night my friend kicked a man in the face
I’m not being too sensitive

Sunday
(Cash Savage)

Standing naked in the streets of Carlton with your body pressed next to mine
Not high, fascinated by the rain you said you needed some time
I crashed my bike on your street, you said you needed space I took my broken head to your front door
On Sunday we were high again, on Sunday we were in love again

You took me to your favourite bar in your favourite city with your favourite crowd and they were more than a little hostile
We sat under the bridge confessing, confessing
By Sunday we were high again, by Sunday we were in love again
And the nights, the nights were everything

I feel the grass on my neck, I feel everything everything again
Sand on sunburnt skin, I feel everything everything again
By Sunday we were high again, by Sunday we were in love again
By Sunday we were high again, by Sunday we were in love again

Found You
(Cash Savage)

I used to be someone who fucked up everyday smoking weed but look at me
I still found you

And even if all the world burns down everything all around me is rubble
I’ll still find you

There’s me
There’s you
There’s nothing else

Every day I’m working in this rat race, everybody clambering but nobody’s got you
I’m the only one that’s got you

Poets will sing, politicians will weep
The sun it shines for you and me

There’s me
There’s you
There’s nothing else

Stars burn out and moons pull tides and one day there’s gonna be nothing
And darkness
And you

February
(Cash Savage)

It’s February, it’s raining
I miss you
I’m up and I’m outside now
I miss you
I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before
I miss you
The sun has come out for a while

I’ve never been so down
Never needed anyone
Now all I ever want is you

I’m holding on
I know you’re coming for me now
It’s so dark here through the daytime
I miss you

I’ve never been so down
Never needed anyone
Now all I ever want is you

Good Citizens
(Cash Savage)

Everybody’s moving to the suburbs and they’re all asking if you’re coming too
And they’re all watching MasterChef and swearing at the girls on the TV
And it’s not their fault if he doesn’t want to work
And it’s not their fault if she can’t get a job, she’s being lazy
And everybody’s got a fucked up way of being good citizens
And all the churches say it isn’t fair because nobody’s thinking of them

And Saturday is gonna be a big night
And Monday morning is gonna be rough

And they don’t know what all the fuss is about
Marriage isn’t even that good anyway
Ain’t it funny how they joke about their wives as if they hate them
Everybody sends their kids to school
Gotta get the little ratbags out the house
But don’t go thinking, don’t go getting any big ideas
And everybody thinks an arts degree is an economic inefficiency
And everybody thinks that boys don’t cry but girls do

And Saturday is gonna be a big night
And Monday morning is gonna be rough

Kings
(Cash Savage & Nick Finch)

I’m sure you know
Like the kings before
There’ll be nothing else
And I’m sure you think it’s time to judge
All the ones that came before
Wake yourself from sleep at night
It’s coming for all of us

So let’s take it out on each other
Pretend we’re one or the others
For all we know there’s nothing left
Worth fighting for

We can watch it all dreaming everyday ordinary things
Wait it out
Hold your breath
In a world all of your own
Wake yourself from sleep at night
It’s coming for all of us

So let’s take it out on each other
It’s all for one another
For all we know there’s nothing left
Worth fighting for

Collapse
(Cash Savage & Nick Finch)

Standing on the water’s edge
Dreaming of you and a world we’ll leave behind
When all the bridges burn, all the crops are dust
I’ll feel as light as day
But I hope you’ll be ok

These are dark times
And there are darker times to come
The collapse is coming
The great undoneing
All I can hear
The people are running
Of course they’re running
But they’re running at nothing
And we’re all just watching
The collapse it’s coming

In 18 years or so you can find your voice and vote for the rest of your life
But they’ll stand over you, like they stand over everyone
I’ll feel as light as day
But I hope you’ll be ok

All I can hear
All I can hear
Machines humming
Drones buzzing
The collapse is coming
All I can feel is water rising
And all I see on the horizon
Are rich men climbing
Rich white men

Well the answer is here, and they’re not gonna like it
The complacency of the middle class is stifling
The world is not a safe place
But the world is what we make it
So don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid of the violence

Falling, Landing
(Cash Savage)

I hear the plane, I think we’re landing
Welcome back, we’re glad that you’re here

All the miles and all the candy
Welcome back, we’re glad that you’re here

Falling, landing, wounded but still here
All in all, there will be another morning
Welcome back, we’re glad that you’re here

All I know, it was night then it was morning
And your heartbeat sounded right through
You and me, me and you
Welcome back, we’re glad that you’re here

Run With The Dogs
(Cash Savage)

Now the dogs are barking
They’ve come to take you home
They cut a path over the hills
And through the hills you run
Settle in for the longest time
Settle in for the cold
And watch as we come home to you
Watch us all grow old

Now your room is empty
And your garden’s overgrown
Your father’s lost his way again
But your mother’s not alone

We’ll dance for you again
Hold our faces to the wind
For you, for us, for everyone

Travelling is for the rich
But wandering is for the brave
And the fortunate can ask for help
But don’t ask to be saved

We’ll dance for you again
Hold our faces to the wind
For you, for us, for everyone
For you, for us, for everyone

Sunday Morning
(Cash Savage)

Sunday morning and I’m coming down
Lying here with you
Close the window and come back to bed
There’s nothing I’d rather do

Never been one for sleeping in
Felt like wasted time
Come back to bed my dear, my love
Lying here’s mending my mind

We can dream of a time with a house of our own
With little ones to warm up the halls
Or laugh at the time we drank too much wine
And passed out cold on the floor

Oh my head is aching my dear, could you pass me two of them pills
One for the drink I put away last night
And one so I can lay here with you

Sunday morning and I’m coming down
Lying here with you
Close the window and come back to bed
There’s nothing I’d rather do

Empty Page
(Cash Savage & Nick Finch)

Take this breath
Draw it in
Hold it for me
I’ll be there soon

Time
Lingers
It ticks between us
It fills the room

Surrounded
By shades of winter
Where minutes are hours
And days are weeks

Time goes tick tick tick
Reverberates through my head sometimes
It jumbles up the lines as I write this song

And time it tick tick ticks
While everything I’ve thought
Fills another empty page
As I write this song

And I hear tick tick tick
As I stand before you singing
Repeat the words until they’re empty
Just for this song

Rat-a-tat-tat
(Cash Savage)

I hear the sound it’s deafening, it’s the thumping of my heart
In my head it’s everything, it’s the thumping of my heart
I try to sleep it’s in my chest and it’s thumping hard
Another night I lay awake listening to my thumping heart

What’s a girl to do with a heart that won’t give up
In the dark she’s next to me I wonder if she hears it thump
Another night I lay awake listening to my thumping heart
Through the day it won’t give up it’s the thumping of my heart

And it goes
Rat-a-tat-a-tat
Rat-a-tat-a-tat
Rat-a-tat-a-tat

All it is is a heart all it wants to do is thump
I should be happy that my heart it thumps and thumps
I try to sleep it’s in my chest and it’s thumping hard
Another night I lay awake listening to my thumping heart

One more night awake
One more night awake
One more night awake
It’s the thumping of my heart

And it goes
Rat-a-tat-a-tat
Rat-a-tat-a-tat
Rat-a-tat-a-tat

Do You Feel Loved
(Cash Savage)

It was Thursday and it was raining
And I was walking in the rain yeah

I heard a sound, I hear voices
A conglomerate of noises
I followed it, I followed it

It was a crowd and they were dancing
With their left feet and right feet they were dancing
With their hearts and their hands they were dancing
And they were following
Following a leader

She was tall and demanding
She was moving and commanding
She had a big blonde streak through her thick black hair
She was, she was, she was beautiful

I stood enamoured and enchanted
I was speechless
I was her witness

I could not believe my eyes, what was I seeing
I am speechless
I am her witness

She came through her crowd of boys and girls
Her dancing moving hoard of followers
And she whispered to me, yeah she whispered to me
She whispered to me, hey she whispered to me
She said
In this life we get many chances
To be loved, to give love
To need love, to have love
To feel loved, to feel loved
Do you feel loved?

It was Thursday and it was raining
And I was walking in the rain yeah

My Friend
(Cash Savage & Nick Finch)

I heard pride comes before a fall
I don’t remember being proud at all
Falling freely into a darkness
So I need you my friend
To pull me out again

I know that there’s been distance in our lives
Time was I’d be drinking by your side
So I hope that I’ve done nothing to offend you
’Cos I need you my friend
To pull me out again

Whatever happens now is for the best
Someday we’ll put the past behind us
As we fall freely into a darkness
Nobody else around, nothing to guide us
Stumbling away from harder times

So I need you my friend
To pull me out again

Song For a Funeral
(Cash Savage)

Let’s say goodbye to a year hard to forget
Let’s say goodbye to the hardest of times
Let’s make way for tears and tomorrow
Let’s say goodbye to you

Let’s hold on while the hours are dark
Let’s sing words of love to the living
Let’s say the things most difficult to hear
But first, let’s say goodbye to you

You made a choice to make it easy on yourself
And now your hardest times are gone

Let’s let go the questions unanswered
Let’s let go regret and self-reproach
Let’s celebrate a life half-lived
Let’s say goodbye to you

Port
(Cash Savage)

Run, run
Someone tell the town that their shame and their pride
Their one and only jewel has been set alight
Someone tell them that their future is lost
Let’s all stand around while the heat breaks the glass
No talk of new beginnings

In the beginning they built their houses on the sand
Houses made of mud and tin, they put their fences ‘round to keep their beasts in
Stupid white men with their stupid plans
Building mud and tin houses on shifting sands
But goldfields need mines
And miners
And the gold it’s got to leave
So send those big ships through here

Every house on the market
Every house for sale
And if no-one can find work here
Then no-one gets to stay

And we fished and fished and fished and fished and fished
Now the fish are gone
And the ships are gone
Now we are gone

And every day the sea it swells with pride
It’s watched this little town get pushed to the side
It knows everything, sees everything
The sea is everything

One of Us
(Cash Savage & Nick Finch)

One of us is leaving
Because one of us wants to leave
One of us starts thinking aloud
One of us was here
While one of us sits by the train line
Pen and paper in her hands

Most of us are proud
None of us are patient
Some of us have a temper
All of us are waiting

And we’re all alone
We are all alone

One of us is leaving
Because one of us wants to leave
One of us starts thinking aloud
One of us was here
And the sun beats down on the train line
And the pen bleeds out on the page

Let Go
(Cash Savage)

Dark is my mind
Dark is the hair on her head
Dark is the raven screaming
Let go and see where she takes you

I feel the cold lift
I feel the blood coming back
I feel the fire, it’s burning inside
I’m gonna let go and see where she takes me

I see no trouble ahead
But I see chaos in my wake
I see the moon sitting high in the sky
It’s saying, let go and see where she takes you

I hear her call my name
I feel the waves crashing around
I feel the tide, it’s pulling at my feet
I’m gonna let go and see where she takes me

Something Better
(Cash Savage)

Well I think I’m done with Sunday mornings on my own
And I think I’m through with hoarding numbers on my phone
I’m giving up on this drink in front of me and heading home
Because I found something better
And she don’t wait for too long

Well I think I’m through with coming back to an empty home
And I think I’m done with coming back with broken bones
Well maybe I should sit back down and finish this drink in front of me
But I found something better
And she’s waiting for me

Hypnotiser
(Nick Finch)

You move you sway down like the branches
My breath’s the breeze that’s all around you
I am the hypnotiser
Let’s move together baby
I am the firelighter
Let’s burn together baby

Here comes the gospel choir
Sing it with me baby

You move you float in like the waves do
I am the tide that’s all around you
Let’s make the ocean sway
Let’s move together baby
I am the water’s edge
Come swimming with me baby

Here comes the gospel choir
Sing it with me baby
I am the gospel choir
Sing it with me baby

You move you rise up like the moon yeah
I am the night that’s all around you
Let’s stumble in the dark
Let’s move together baby
The world’s asleep they’ll never know
Let’s move together baby

I am your lullaby
Sing it with me baby

Here comes the gospel choir
They’re singing for us baby
I am the gospel choir
Sing it with me baby

Howling For Me
(Cash Savage)

She had eyes that wept for my return
I was on my way home as she lay there in the dirt
Too sick to go on, too cold to sleep through the hurt
By the time I arrived she was gone, she was gone

I took her in my arms and walked her out to the car
What’s three hours on the road with a loved one by your side
I took her to that place where we freely ran through the night
Sunk my shovel into that black sand and dug the sand out with the tide

With my hands around her chest I lowered her into the ground
I filled that hole back in and got back in the car
I still hear her howl, howling for me through the night
Howling me back, back to her side

She had eyes that wept for my return

Five Boys, One Farm
(Cash Savage)

One boy never wanted it
but it was pinned on anyway
A life of toil and hardship
and he never had a say

The first boy would have wanted it
but he never had a chance
Only carried half the family name
so they never even asked

Their father was a mean man
Took everything he could
Took every love he had for granted
His kids they never understood

But hey he could work the land
When the land was at its hardest
Saw his neighbours fall and bite the dust
Like his love to their young mother

Five boys
One farm
One bad divorce

Two boys had young families
but were never gonna stay
So when they got the money up
they took their young families away

Living on a state line
as far as poor boys can be
They keep their young families close
Planting two brand new family trees

Five boys
One farm
One bad divorce

Now the youngest holds a grudge against
his mother walking out that day
And there’s a new man on the family land
The brothers never had no say

The oldest keeps his mouth shut
about the farm he wanted as his home
He says if no-one ever wanted it,
who cares now that it’s gone?

Five boys
One farm
One bad divorce

Bareknuckle Boogie
(Cash Savage, Joe White, Rene Mancuso)

Young man walking home
T-shirt in his hand
He wears his naked torso tall
He’s a proud Australian man
Blood clot in his nose
Bruising ’round his eye
Swelling in his knuckles
He’s been dancing tonight

Bloodied and bruised
The bareknuckle boogie

Young man in his last hour
Of his weekly work
Young man’s impatient
For somebody to get hurt
He says I’m going to the casino
First I’ll get kicked out of there
And there’ll be hell to pay
For anybody who dares

We’ll get bloodied and bruised
The bareknuckle boogie

Young man get drunk
Young man kicked out
Young man on the ground
Young man in a van
Later in the courtroom
His old lady she weeps
I think his old man is proud
He taught him to dance and he dances well

Bloodied and bruised
The bareknuckle boogie

I’m in Love
(Cash Savage, Nick Finch)

I’m gonna bare my soul
Ain’t gonna reference no lonesome road
I confess my affection has grown and grown
I’m in love

I’m gonna lay it down
Put my pen down and shout it out loud
This is for your ears, but they’re gonna hear it for miles around
I’m in love

Two children in the night
Two lovers swept up in a tide
This is just another two more lines
Because I’m in love

You could have a lifetime of concerns
but I’ll share your worries and burdens
I’m in love

95km to Sandy Point
(Cash Savage)

I picked up my ex-lady around the corner
To take her into town to the state court
But not for any way I may have wronged her
Lord knows she done no wrongs to me

I’ve been dreading this moment for a long time
It’s been 12 months since I seen her to the day
and my body ain’t forgotten about her warmness
Lord knows she ain’t forgotten about my ways

There’s a bad man waiting for us in the courtroom
A bad man we once picked up on the road
To take him from his evil to a safe place
There’s no way anybody could have known

So we sit here together in silence
Maybe there’s just nothing left for us to say
When I finally got us back to that courtroom
I answered every question that came my way

Well yes sir, I picked him up near Churchill
Said his car had broken down somewhere
But if I knew then what I now know about him
Things would have turned out a different way

Because I know there were people looking for him
And I know they all had something to say
Probably would have strung him up on a front porch
But maybe a man like that deserves to go that way

Well I’m sorry if you don’t have my full attention
It’s been 12 months since I seen her to the day
and my body ain’t forgotten about her warmness
Lord knows she ain’t forgotten about my ways

Early Morning Come Down Blues
(Cash Savage)

Early morning come down blues
Eyes are wide the day is new
Will I lay my head down once again
When the night has come I’ll rise again

Because my beer don’t work
and my wine don’t work
yeah my gin don’t work
and my weed don’t work

Well I’m dreaming of the night to come
and all I’ll do when this day is done
Well I’ll lay my head down once again
When the night has come I’ll rise again

Because my beer don’t work
and my wine don’t work
yeah my gin don’t work
and my weed don’t work

Now the sun is going down
It’s time to get back on it
Flying high through the night
Baby let me fly, oh let me fly

Well I worked so hard all week long
Now the weekend’s here and the work’s all done
Will I lay my head down once again
When the night has come I’ll rise again

Because my beer don’t work
and my wine don’t work
yeah my gin don’t work
and my weed don’t work

Mother’s Lament
(Cash Savage)

Mother warned me
She sees a darkness
Coming from within

She said, my darling
I offer no guidance
The lesson’s there to learn

Mother dearest
Your child is blinded

Hold a light up
She needs your guidance